It erks me how the author has described that Microsoft RUINED passwords. Sorry, but AD has been around for decades and implemented passwords way before we had t

It erks me how the author has described that Microsoft RUINED passwords. Sorry, but AD has been around for decades and implemented passwords way before we had the technology or foresight of today to know and do better. You can't say a company ruined something when that was arguably the best implementation of that at the time. It's like saying Ford ruined cars because they produced the first combustion engine and now that we all use electric cars they ruined the automobile and enabled decades of emissions in hindsight. I've reviewed the AD password policies for around 80+ companies now and I can safely say that many of those companies were not even implementing the full extent of what the policy would allow. I'm not disagreeing with the premise of passwords, just that it's easy to stand on a pedestal decades later in hindsight and say "they did it badly" knowing what we know now.